Tag: Edwin Diaz

New York Mets may not be getting a ton of All Stars this year
Updated:The All Star game is less than a month away, and its as good a time as any to speculate…
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Three Years In The Making
Updated:The thing about Saturday’s 5-3 Mets win over the Rockies that shouldn’t go unnoticed was Steven Matz going up and…
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Mickey Callaway’s bullpen management is haunting the New York Mets
Updated:What should have been a terrific win in the desert last night turned into another horror show for the New…
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A Confluence Of Events
Updated:I settled in to tonight’s game just in time to see home plate ump Jim Wolf get clocked by a…
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Edwin Diaz’s meltdown is a symptom of New York Mets’ bullpen problems
Updated:Last night’s game was a horror show for the New York Mets, who saw Edwin Diaz absolutely collapse in the…
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We’ve Seen This Movie Before
Updated:That was disgusting. Baseball fans feel the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, and like tonight, they feel…
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Battery Charge
The pitchers and the catchers deserve all the credit on Saturday. First, and maybe not foremost but on the list:…
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Choices Have Good Consequences Too
Updated:I was in a mood last week. I mean, you can’t blame me, right? But among other things, I said…
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The Annals Of Crazy Days
Updated:In the list of crazy days surrounding this franchise, it’s safe to say that nothing beats the Midnight Massacre ……
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“Baseball Will Kill Us All One Day, Johnny!”
It might not be as elegant as anything Roger Angell, George Will, Greg Prince or any of baseball’s other poets…
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Unintentional Hell
Updated:Little did Pete Alonso know when he hit a game tying home run in the ninth inning what hell he…
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Back To Normal?
Updated:Jacob deGrom led off his Wednesday start with two hard hit balls: A liner by Joey Votto to J.D. Davis…
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New York Mets navigate challenging April with powerful offense
Updated:The New York Mets entered the season built on pitching, and ironically their pitching has been their weakest component. After…
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Where Is Christopher Reeve When You Need Him?
This season is slowly turning into the scene from Superman II where Superman shows up, General Zod is throwing buses…
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He Went To Jesuit … That’s A Private School!
Not since B-Rabbit defeated the Free World at the Shelter has a player exhibited such a turnaround after choking just…
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Sugar, Spice, And Most Everything Nice
The Mets didn’t waste the opportunity they had to win a Jason Vargas start. Of course, because of a ton…
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Trust The Process, But Not The People
Not to label Noah Syndergaard’s awful evening or Brandon Nimmo’s home run as inconsequential, but due to time constraints we…
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New York Mets’ bullpen has been a complete mess
Updated:There have been a lot of bad bullpens in baseball in the early season. The Washington Nationals have a terrible…
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Art In Many Forms
I was talking to a friend of mine today … he’s a twitter friend who happens to be a real…
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Wrestling With Greatness
On WWE day at Citi Field, Saturday’s game started out like Hulk Hogan/Ultimate Warrior from Wrestlemania VI, and ended more…
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If We Knew Then What We Know Now
Updated:The Mets scored five runs on five hits before Jason Vargas took the field. Wilson Ramos, Michael Conforto, Amed Rosario…
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A Good Decision
I guess it’s obvious that the Mets made a pretty good decision to bring Pete Alonso to the big club…
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The Tao of Chili
The first thing I noticed, and it’s something that generally drives me crazy so I’m glad that it was the…
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I Guess I Like The Trade?
Call it a good omen if you wish. Forget Thursday’s Opening Day victory, their 38th OD win in their last…
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Know Your Friends: The 2019 New York Mets
Updated:As the regular season draws near, we preview the teams of the National League East where four teams will battle…
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New York Mets 2019 Preview: 10 Questions Edition
After a seemingly endless offseason, the New York Mets are finally set to take the field for actual baseball games…
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Five Mets (Besides Noah Syndergaard) Who Will Tell The Story of 2019
Updated:What you’re about to read is my personal views on which specific players will be the keys to the 2019…
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Sayonara, 2018: Revisiting Some of The New York Mets’ Most Memorable Moments of the Year
Today is the final day of 2018, and it is a year that the New York Mets will have a…
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The Jeurys Familia Move Makes A Lot of Sense For New York Mets
Updated:The New York Mets’ one significant transaction from the Winter Meetings was bringing back reliever Jeurys Familia on a three…
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